Trivia

He was a lifelong bachelor but for 40 years had an off-and-on relationship with actress Milicent Patrick until his death in 1980.

The hearse containing his body was stolen on the way to the mortuary. Involved in a fender bender, the vehicle was stolen by carjackers while information was being exchanged by the occupants of the vehicles. The car and the body were found shortly after.

Was in four Oscar Best Picture nominees: Ninotchka (1939), Sergeant York (1941), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and Mildred Pierce (1945).

He appeared in both Ninotchka (1939) and Silk Stockings (1957), its musical remake.

In The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), Tobias appears in a prominent supporting role as Muishkin, the excitable Russian translator employed Cornelius Leyden, Peter Lorre.

He was Abner Kravitz on Bewitched (1964) where Darrin Stephens was played by Dick York and Dick Sargent. He also starred opposite Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941).

In The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Tobias is credited only as playing a beggar. However, he also can be seen as playing one of the workmen doing renovation work in Notre Dame Cathedral.